What support weapon do you think is the best.

[Carson]

Trying to find out what most people think the best support weapon is. keep it to weapons you've personally used more than once.

[SneakyNoodle]

The recoilless rifle. Good for sniping structures across the map, if you're good 1shot head-shots boss units & I couple that with the Liberator pentr. for the mid penetration. Sec... either the Senator or the grenade pistol.

[Sleepy_Walker]

Depends on the loadout and the biome. Here are some consistent top picks for me for D7+ because I have some loadouts which I found that work really well/fun.

Bugs: Stalwart, HMG, Grenade Launcher, Arc Thrower.
____I would put quasar, but I don't find it that enjoyable and really just for Titans.

Bots: Railgun, HMG, Autocannon, Arc Thrower, Quasar, Recoilless, Airburst.
____I used to highly value MG-43, but then berserkers and devastators became much less of an issue with healthpool nerfs+diver weapon buffs. Also used to highly value Spear, where the breakaway point what when tanks lost level 6 front armor.

[PyroShark_]

Generally I use the Recoilless Rifle. Sometimes I play around with others to have fun but RR is my main you could say.

[Khloros]

RR is hands down the best support weapon because you can make it work crazy good against bugs and bots.

After that i would say the MG.

[DrLamp]

The question is pointless unless you give a task.

Best for what?

[ccdu5000]

RR and Med MG are my personal favorite

[ColinDJPat]

I like the Commando for bots, but for bugs I like the Grenade Launcher and the variations of machine guns. Haven't played around with a lot of the support weps enough though

[EotB]

laser or autocannon

[King-XaYa]

Personally speaking, i cannot recommend the AC enough. Its a ability to take care of most problems on the battlefield cannot be overlooked. Look at it from a logistical pov, you can destroy fabs/bug holes with one round and you carry a good amount. This means you can save on grenades and stratagems allowing you to bring a much more dynamic loadout. You can easily kill groups of enemies with the flak and shoot down gunships/shriekers while heavier targets can still be damaged with it. I'll usually bring thermite grenades to cover most heavy targets tbh.

[Rein ☥]

quasar cannon or arc thrower

[HekaDooM]

RR is the best by far currently. One shots factory strider carriers, kills bile titans and chargers in a well aimed shot, and kills hulks pretty much wherever you hit them.

You can equip it, feel assured that your anti armour is S tier, and then use the rest of your kit on whatever fun build you want.

[Kikkiface]

For me it depends, on the bugfront I love me a good flamethrower, clears out enemies like they are nothing

When it comes to automatons I like the quasar canon, recharges, can destroy ships and factories + hulks!

[Akantorz]

For bots: RR, Railgun, and AMR

For Bugs: Queso Cannon and autocannon

Bugs is more about something that I either don't need to reload while running from bugs, or something that can not only kill the big bugs but also close bug holes.
Autocannon is best for when there bile spewers/bile throwers
Queso Cannon when heavies are numerous

For Bots, it more depends on the primary.
-AMR if I'm using crossbow or light pen weapons so I can deal with all types of medium armor+ enemies
-Railgun if the primary has low damage or in case a run into LOTS of Hulks
-Recoiless if the primary is good for solo play like the DCS so I have something that can let me kill anything rapidly like Cannon turrets/Tanks from the front, Factory Striders, or Fabs.

It more depends on what I want the loadout to be. Each can be fun though, I'll probably use the AMR more if they buff it to one-shot Hulks in the eye and one shot to gunship engines, then it can have a better niche than it does at the moment.

But there are some I normally don't use since the ones listed above just do their job better.

[TheClosetSkeleton]

Best is very subjective because it's dependant on a lot of thing, but as a bot player, I'll drop the obligatory RR.

Not necessarly the most fun, or even the most OP thing, but if you just run numbers, it is your best choice pretty often.

Then again, the beauty of this game is that you can run (almost) everything and still make it work.

AH please fix the airburst, it's crying in a corner

[[Asgard] Thor]

I used to use the laser canon, then used the commando during the one hit factory run, but right now RR is where it's at. Especially on higher Diff where armored enemies are everywhere. Really missing it right now while trying the MG MO.